]]>Comment on Danny Gokey News & Discussion- January 2019 by admin2https://dannygokeynews.com/2018/12/30/danny-gokey-news-discussion-january-2019/comment-page-1/#comment-13432
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 03:04:22 +0000https://dannygokeynews.com/?p=6978#comment-13432Josh Turner seems like a good example
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Sun, 20 Jan 2019 18:27:41 +0000https://dannygokeynews.com/?p=6978#comment-13431Admin 2, I think you are right. There used to be straight arrows in the country mix in days gone by, such as Josh Turner.
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Sun, 20 Jan 2019 01:09:13 +0000https://dannygokeynews.com/?p=6978#comment-13430When Danny first started into country, it was a different time with Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift, early Carrie, and various other acts mixed in with the beer songs and related topics.

But the turn to “bro” songs, hard partying songs, and all that really didn’t leave him much place to be. I’d have to go back and look, but seems to me there was a significant number of acts who couldn’t stick in that environment including some well-establisedh ones whose radio relevance rapidly dried up.

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Sun, 20 Jan 2019 00:05:56 +0000https://dannygokeynews.com/?p=6978#comment-13429Yes, I agree with all of you. It must have been uncomfortable for Danny. I think he’s found his comfort zone… but, I enjoyed his first album, My Best Days. 🙂
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Sat, 19 Jan 2019 21:40:56 +0000https://dannygokeynews.com/?p=6978#comment-13428I’ve heard the name Marshall Tenpenny before, and after I played the video, I recognized the song. I still listen to country music, but I mostly am on the lookout for female country artists (who almost never get airplay on country radio, which I find astonishing and enraging).

Danny absolutely would not fit in the country music world of today . . . (And that is a compliment to Danny!)

For the last two years I’ve purchased tickets to our local radio station’s upcoming country stars event. They bring together 5 new-ish artists in a night of music- usually they have to have at least one kind of hit or wrote hits for someone else. Last year we were treated to Luke Combs. Boy, did he blow up on country music! At the time his “Hurricane” had gone to #1. Since then he’s had two more #1 songs!

This year we think Mitchell TenPenny will be the biggest star. He talked about how uncomfortable he was appearing on Jimmy Kimmel to sing his hit song “Drunk Me”

Here it comes back to Danny in this comment. Almost all the songs performed last night was about drinking, hooking up etc. Danny was so NOT part of that scene. I’d imagine he was an odd fit with the typical bar scene banter with the radio station DJs, program directors etc. Heck, back then he didn’t even drink coffee….

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Sat, 19 Jan 2019 05:10:41 +0000https://dannygokeynews.com/?p=6978#comment-13425Good points, Admin2!
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Sat, 19 Jan 2019 04:08:04 +0000https://dannygokeynews.com/?p=6978#comment-13424I had an impression from one of the interviews that Danny was not expecting to bring in a significant net profit on the tour so much as to establish his brand as a headliner. But I’m sure you always hope … between tickets, merch sales and the rest that it does well.

On the non-profit venture, the concept wasn’t that clear to me but as far as finding stories to highlight in an upcoming tour city, I hadn’t thought of that as too difficult. There’s probably a church network to tap, CCM radio station reps may know of something worthy, Danny has manager reps who could look into it… Or they could seek ideas on social media and then (one would hope) vet them.

Ellen, I can see Danny’s stress over everything you mentioned. I hope his tour was a success. I know the L.A. crowd was very excited and appreciative of the great performances.

Danny has so many wonderful dreams. It may take him a little more time to accomplish them, but in the end they will be.

I’ll just wait for the Danny Gokey Interview for Danny Gokey News. 😉

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Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:26:47 +0000https://dannygokeynews.com/?p=6978#comment-13422Have been lurking, but haven’t posted much lately. My best guess about Danny’s disappointment may be that his headlining tour didn’t sell as well as he’d hoped. I know it sold out in Minnesota, but in other places there were a lot of empty seats. That (if true for the tour as a whole) would be problematic, because I’m certain Danny spent a lot of $$$ preparing for the tour (those choreography lessons, for example), and he had two other artists accompanying him.

I worry because artists today have to make their money through touring rather than album sales, which means artists have an incentive to tour constantly and are in competition with other artists for a limited pool of concert venues and concert $$$. The more an artist tours, the less special any one tour becomes. People may have already caught a tour, or they put it off, assuming that there will be another tour that might be closer or better.

Conversely, the disappointment may relate solely to the program accompanying the tour, of finding someone in each concert community trying to make a difference. I never understood how that was to work, logistically-speaking. How would Danny find the person/program trying to make a difference? He’d probably need to know ahead of time, but how would he find out? And how do you involve concert-goers? Then there is the fund-raising or finding a way to make a donation to the (local?) charities that need an assist. Where is the money coming from?

I am probably not remembering correctly what Danny’s plans were. But I do suspect logistical problems.

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Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:03:06 +0000https://dannygokeynews.com/?p=7026#comment-13421Sounds like a wonderful evening.
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Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:27:00 +0000https://dannygokeynews.com/?p=7026#comment-13420Yes! It was good to see the notice. It hasn’t been posted at the typical sites.
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Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:12:57 +0000https://dannygokeynews.com/?p=7026#comment-13419So per the banner, the radio target date is February 1st?
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